Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Gambia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Siouxsie and the Banshees to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Audionom,
Jawbox,
The Barracudas,
Faust,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Patti Smith,
The Knickerbockers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Bananas,
Clear Light,
The Fall,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eli Mardock,
Yellowson,
The Monks,
Jeff Lynne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Althea and Donna,
The Smoke,
David Axelrod,
Eden Ahbez,
The Motions,
Ice-T,
Gerry Rafferty,
Schoolly D,
Glenn Branca,
Unwound,
Soulsonic Force,
The Modern Lovers,
Reuben Wilson,
John Coltrane,
The Misunderstood,
Unrelated Segments,
The Martian,
Sun City Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
The Kinks,
Colin Newman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Swans,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dennis Brown,
Cybotron,
Alison Limerick,
Spandau Ballet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ponytail,
Kas Product,
The Residents,
Television,
cv313,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Moon,
Matthew Bourne,
Altered Images,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.